Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos we came in and Chrissy , instead of switching on the children 's programmes put his computer on so we did n't see it . |
| 2 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |
| 3 | Erm do you believe if , if we erm oh I think we 've already covered that bit right so if I put erm come up with a erm a recommendation that would provide erm an income for your wife in the event of your death erm is there any reason why we ca n't look at this ? |
| 4 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |
| 5 | ‘ I think Mrs Harper and Miss Burge do a very good job under rather difficult conditions , said Ianthe , ‘ after all the whole place is very small and the kitchen especially so . ’ |
| 6 | Arcadelt was more successful than Verdelot in catching Italian dolcezza e soavita , particularly in such pieces as ‘ O felici occhi miei ’ , although of course less so than the native Italians : for instance , Festa in ‘ Cosi suav' è'l; foco et dolce il nodo ’ , and Domenico Ferrabosco , earliest of a whole dynasty of musicians , in his very popular setting of Boccaccio 's ‘ Io mi son giovinetta ’ . |
| 7 | A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain . |
| 8 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 9 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |
| 10 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |
| 11 | I bought Amanda a card yesterday cos she was a bit down so I thought , oh I 'll send her one a card , and I got one from . |
| 12 | Thought she was a bit down so I thought well I 'll er send her a card . |
| 13 | Whatever floor that Ann 's been on has n't done something like put some money in so that they can take em somewhere else something like over in France or something like that . |
| 14 | Think about how you will read the story aloud so that your listener will find it interesting and amusing . |
| 15 | That a measure apparently so contrary to noble interests was carried through has encouraged the view that , in the hands of a determined tsar , the Russian State was able to ride roughshod over every class . |
| 16 | In the end they had abandoned the search , set the Prince down so that he could report the incident at once , and sailed on to Bulak . |
| 17 | There , too , are the ramsons , the wild garlic whose white petals are delicious , the smell less so . |
| 18 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 19 | She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs . |
| 20 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 21 | But will the form teacher be able to do as you would do in English and say , but look when you did that written piece on so and so it was goo , the form teacher will not have that detailed knowledge that you will have |
| 22 | Twisting your wrists forwards , turn your hands upside down so that your palms face upwards and your thumbs point away from you . |
| 23 | Our home 's eight coconut support-trunks were planted upside down so that they continue , even in death , to draw moisture from the roof thatch down into the ground , where it belongs . |
| 24 | Creation had been magnificent and miraculous , but its continuance and maintenance less so . |
| 25 | By all means use them when they are needed or appropriate , but there is no call to construct a headline especially so as to include one or more of them . |
| 26 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
| 27 | It is very important to keep weight down so that there is no extra strain on joints . |
| 28 | Yet , as in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock , the fallen Catholic is in the end somehow right , and the virtuous atheist less so , for if Gael 's concept of the soul represents a higher spiritual plane and poetic vision , it also is coupled with neurosis , prescience , and telepathic powers which verge on the absurd . |
| 29 | And erm , you know I want to talk and wind down so I now exactly what you mean . |
| 30 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |